Indian Institute of Mass Communication

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Indian Institute of Mass Communication

Type	Civil Service training institute
Established	17 August 1965; 56 years ago (1965-08-17)
Chairman	Shri Ajay Mittal, IIS
Director	Sanjay Dwivedi[1]
Location	Headquarters: New Delhi, India Campuses: Jammu, Amravati, Kottayam, Dhenkanal, Aizawl
Website	www.iimc.nic.in

Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) is an Indian media centre of learning and civil service training institute for Indian Information Service Cadre funded and promoted by the Government of India in New Delhi.^[2][3] The IIMC is an autonomous society under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.^[4] The then Minister incharge of Information and Broadcasting, Indira Gandhi had formally inaugurated the institute on 17 August 1965.^{[citation needed][5]}

Institutes[]

The institute has headquarter in New Delhi and five regional campuses at Aizawl (Mizoram), Amravati (Maharashtra), Dhenkanal (Odisha), Jammu (J&K) and Kottayam (Kerala).

Academics[]

IIMC teaches a variety of disciplines including print journalism, photo journalism, radio journalism, television journalism, development communication, communication research, advertising and public relations.

Admissions to these courses are consisting All India Entrance Examination followed by Group Discussions and Interview.

It also offers Diploma Course in Development Journalism for non-aligned and developing countries.^[6] The institute was basically set up to provide training to the officers of the Indian Information Service. The institute also conducts each year a number of specialised short-term courses to meet the training needs of media personnel working in government and public sector organisations.

Notable alumni[]

• Aishwarya Rutuparna Pradhan, India's first openly transgender civil servant.
• Anshu Gupta, Social Worker, and founder of Goonj (NGO)
• Arun Krishnamurthy, Social Worker, and founder of Environmentalist Foundation of India
• Chitra Subramaniam, known for breaking the infamous Bofors scandal
• David Devadas, journalist, writer and columnist
• Deepak Chaurasia, Editor-in-chief India News^[7]
• Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor in chief, Zee News
• Hasleen Kaur, Actress, model and Miss India Earth 2011^[8]
• Neelesh Misra, author, journalist and Bollywood lyricist
• Nidhi Razdan, anchor of NDTV 24x7^[7]
• Niret Alva, TV producer, co-founder Miditech
• Rini Simon Khanna, news anchor^[9]
• Ravish Kumar, senior executive editor in NDTV India
• Satyendra Murli, Media Pedagogue, Researcher, and Journalist; Assistant Professor at University of Delhi.
• Sonal Kalra, Editor, HT City
• Sourav Mishra, journalist, livelihood interventionist, researcher
• Sunetra Choudhury, journalist, and anchor of NDTV 24x7
• Vartika Nanda, Head of the Department of Journalism at Lady Shri Ram College for Women
• Vivek Agnihotri, Indian film director^[10]
• Željko Malnar, Croatian maverick traveler, writer and TV producer
• Zafar Anjum, Writer, journalist, publisher and filmmaker
• Rahul Roushan, Satirist, Social and Political Commentator, Founder of Faking News and Opindia.com

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